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Rishi Sunak said there was not a “firm date” for delivering on his pledge to stop small boat Channel crossings.

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The Prime Minister told the Liaison Committee that the Government had “made progress”, with the number of arrivals having fallen “by a third” this year.

He was pressed repeatedly by Dame Diana Johnson, the Labour chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, on when he would deliver on the promise he made in January to “stop the boats”.

Mr Sunak said: “There isn’t a firm date on this because I have always been clear from the beginning...”

Told by Dame Diana that he had pledged to stop the boats, Mr Sunak said: “And we will keep going until we do but this is not one of these things where there is a precise date estimate on it.”

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